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Open US GPS Data? 327

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday February 26, 2008 @10:36AM from the directions-want-to-be-free dept.

tobiasly writes "I read an article today about a map error on the popular Garmin GPS devices which often leads to truckers in a particular town becoming trapped. From my own experience, every electronic map I've ever seen (Google, Mapquest, my Mio GPS) has the layout of my neighborhood completely and frustratingly wrong. A quick search turned up only one open-source mapping project, but it's for New Zealand only. Why are there no comparable projects in the U.S. or elsewhere? Obviously such a project would need a good peer-review/moderation/trust system but I'd gladly put in the time necessary to drive around town with my GPS in "tracking" mode, then upload, tag, and verify my local data. Has anyone with more technical knowledge in maps and auto-routing looked more into this? Are there technical limitations to such a project? Should the government subsidize a project to create open, free, up-to-date electronic maps? Surely there is a public benefit available from such a project."

Google Buys a Piece of a Cable To Japan 78

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 26, 2008 @04:43AM from the got-fiber dept.

Googling Yourself writes "Google announced that they will be part of a six-company consortium that will build a high-bandwidth sub-sea fiber optic cable linking the US and Japan. The new cable system, named Unity, is expected initially to increase Trans-Pacific lit cable capacity by about 20 percent, with the potential to add up to 7.68 Terabits per second of bandwidth across the Pacific. The name Unity was chosen to signify a new type of consortium, born out of potentially competing systems, to emerge as a system within a system, offering ownership and management of individual fiber pairs. Rumors that Google would join the consortium had originally surfaced in September last year but the company had declined to confirm or deny the news."

Comment I guess marrowind was ok! (Score -1) 87

by Mr804 on Friday November 18, 2005 @09:02AM (#14061714) Attached to: Rare Gambles On Dark Discs

That game had no bugs!

Comment Re:Recipe for a perfect Valentine's Day (Score 1) 1034

by VaBeachGirl on Tuesday February 10, 2004 @08:32AM (#8236212) Attached to: What to Get My Geek for Valentine's Day?

You are right. I live in Virginia Beach. Not too bad a place to call home.

Journal Journal: Crystal reports Enterprise

Journal by Mr804 on Wednesday April 23, 2003 @12:29PM

UGH!!

Journal Journal: Pocket PC

Journal by Mr804 on Friday April 11, 2003 @10:03AM

I got my pocket PC from dell. It's pretty cool. I don't know if I'd recomend it for most people though, but for geeks it rocks. And MS lets you download the vb/c++ compiler for it free on their website.

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